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Map of Online Communities

I stumbled upon (not via StumbleUpon by the way) the image below and thought it would be nice just to post something really light. Notice something missing? Might be my eyes but is Twitter not there? This might be an old sketch though specially since Facebook country is also given a pretty small land area. [...]

Social Media World Map and Table

Scott Monty, Ford Motor’s social media head, recently wrote an article that reminded me how easy it is to get tunnel vision. Admittedly, I focus all my energies on the 
“most popular” social media sites namely: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Bebo. I dabble with other social media sites (who doesn’t watch YouTube?) but lately these [...]

Social Media Marketing in Asia Booming

According to the Strait Times a survey of 100 small and medium enterprise businesses from 5 countries in Asia showed that 72% of the businesses use social media platforms like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.
Facebook is in the lead among the social media platforms with 79% of the business users citing Facebook to be at [...]

Good News: It’s Boring at Twitter and Jaiku

We know how mundane Twitterers’ updates can be but I never really realized just how boring most people’s update have are.
A recent study conducted by the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology revealed that the top five most frequent postings include the words “working,” “home,” “work,” “lunch,” and “sleeping”. According to the study the reason [...]

TheArtistFinder: Art Industry Social Platform

News Blaze recently reported a new social platform for artists and art lovers called TheArtistFinder.com.
TheArtistFinder.com, as the name implies, is a site where you can browse at the work of artists worldwide, click on the artist whose work catches your eye, and get information (links to sites) on where you can buy that artist’s [...]

Burglars Like Facebook

Last time I warned about being selective of what you post on your social media account for your career’s sake but now an even more pressing reason to be careful about what you post online has emerged – safety. According to a report from Legal and General there is no doubt that criminals (especially burglars) [...]

Advertising in StumbleUpon

Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter are the most popular social media sites nowadays and advertisers, as a result, are flocking to these sites to take advantage of that fact. However, have you considered looking into the other relatively neglected social media platforms as a way to attract more traffic to your site?
If you have [...]

Social Media Booming: Good for Marketing

The popularity of social media is obvious but according to the Consumer Internet Barometer, a quarterly survey of 10,000 households, the pace at which it is gaining popularity is explosive. Recent result have shown that the number of people who go online that use social media sites has almost doubled (43%) compared to last year [...]

Twitter Employees Hacked: User Accounts Safe So Far

The internet’s all abuzz at the latest Twitter security breach. Apparently though the security breach does not affect the actual Twitter accounts of Twitter users but instead affects other online accounts (Paypal, Gmail, Amazon, etc.) of Twitter employees. According to Ev William’s email to Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch the hacker, who’s using the alias Hacker [...]

TweetROI: The Answer to Marketers’ Prayers

Looking to make money via Tweeter? Use TweetROI.
TweetROI, as described in their website, “unites influencers with marketers and protects the authentic personality that makes Twitter great. Twitterers recommend, in their own words, stuff they like. Marketers and PR professionals get valuable, previously navailable Social Media exposure.”
Not really the most unique of ideas since, as [...]

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